Improvement in carpet-stretchers



WILLIAM H. MAYBACH, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEWENT IN CARPETSTRETCHERS.

Speeifieation forming part of Letters Patent No. 1@'7,544 dated February 20, 1877; applieation filed September 15,1876.

aetuated by a lever and pinion engaging with the reek-bar, as will be nereinaiter more fully set f0rth.

In the aecom aiiying dravving, Figure 1 is a side elevation of .my improved earpetstietcher. Fig. 2 is a top-plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a crossseetien on line w 00, Fig. 1.

Like letters of rei'erenee refer to like parts in eaeh of the figures.

A represents the stationary bar, provided on its upper side with a gearrack, a, and

having at 0ne end tw0 prongs, a, whieb project downwardly, and are adapted te be driven in to the floor. B represents the movable bar, arranged transversel y with referenee to the bar A, and construeted so as to slide 011 the latter. Il1elnar B is provided with a hearing 01 gnidepieee, U, arranged underneath the bar A, and having lugs or jaws 0 overlapping the top and sides thereof, as elearly shown in Fig. 3. 1) represents tw0 standards, l'ormed With the hearing O, and E a gear-wheel piv- 0ced between the upper ends tl1ereof, s0 as to 1nesh With the reek (1. F is a hand-lever svvinging en the shaft of tlie gear-wheel E, and provided Witli a spring-pawl, e-, engaging with the wheel E in suh manne1tha't, by swinging the lever forward, 0r toward t11e fixed end of the bar A, tl1e pawl e will engage with the wheel E, and eanse the same te turn in the same direction, wl1ile, during the baekward movement of the lever F, the pavvl e will rideover the teeth of the wl1eel E Without moving the latter. g is a detent-pawl, hang on the shaft of the wheel E, s0 as to engage with the teeth of the raak-bar A, and prevent the wheel E from moving the bar B baekward when the handle is swung backward.

The pawl g is held in engagement with the bar A by its own weight; lont, if desired, a snitable spring may be employed for the purpose.

In using my improved device the bar B is first drawi1 back to the rear end of the bar A, whiehis readily aeeomplished by disengaging the pavvls 6 and 9, respeetively, from the wneelE and bar A, when the wheel E is free te be moved en the bar A either forward er baekward. Tl1e prongs a of the bar A are then driven into the floornear the base of the wall, and the bar B engaged with the carpet, wl1en, up0n releasing tl1e pawls e g, an'd moving tl1e handle F forward, the bar B is moved toward the fixed end of the bar A, tl1ereby drawing the earpet tovvard the wall. When the 0rward stroke of the lever F is inisl1ed it is swung back, the detent-pavvl g retaining the bars A and B in their relative position dn1ing this movernent of the le"er, while dur in g the 'orward stroke of the lever the pawl The parts of my improved device are readily eonstrueted 0'east 0r malleable ir0n, and easily seeured together; the entire device being very simple, and produeed at eomparatively small expense.

I am aware of Letters Patent No. 10,143, granted to J. W. Weatherby, Oetober 18, 1855 end Ne. 137,739, granted to 0. Vanorman, April 8, 1873, for improvements in earpet-stretehers; and Irnake no claim to the deviees described and sl10wn therein; bilt What I claim as my invention, and desire t0 secure by Letters Patent, is-

'Ihe combination, with the stationary raak bar A, adapted te be seeured to.the floor, of the movable cross-bar B, hearing G D, gearwheel E, lever F, aetuating-pawl e=, and detent-pawl g, so that, by operating tl1e lever F, tl1e niovable nar B will be drawn toward the fixed end of the bar A, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set fortl1.

WILLIAM H. MAYBAOB. 

